BioWorks Bulletin

Info to Grow                                                                        November 2010

Greetings!                                        

As the holiday season approaches, please be sure to review our holiday shipping schedule. We would like to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Foliar Diseases on the Rise
By Scott Armstrong, Central Region Technical Sales Manager
 

With the onset of colder temperatures and cloudy days, the pressures from Botrytis, Powdery Mildew, and other foliar bacterial and fungal diseases are on the rise.

 

Be proactive and prepared and protect your investment.  Now is the time to call your distributor and stock up on CEASE� and MilStop� for the winter and early spring months. 

 

Cease & MilStopWhy CEASE and MilStop?

 

CEASE is a biological fungicide (Bacillus subtilis QST 713) that will provide you with  preventative protection against foliar fungal diseases such as Powdery Mildew, Botrytis, and Cercospora. CEASE will also provide you with preventative protection against foliar bacterial diseases such as Erwinia, Xanthomonas, and Pseudomonas. Plus, unlike many of the other available products, CEASE is OMRI Listed and has only a 4-hour REI!

 

MilStop is biopesticide (potassium bicarbonate with a great surfactant) that is used as a curative for light to moderate infestations of Powdery Mildew, and as a preventative for many other types of foliar fungal diseases (Botrytis, Downy Mildew, Blackspot, etc). MilStop is also an OMRI Listed product with only a 1-hour REI.

 

The combination of these 2 products as a tank mix provides the grower with:

  •  Multiple modes of action as a preventative for many foliar bacterial and fungal diseases, plus a curative for light to moderate infestations of Powdery Mildew
  •  A 4-hour REI on the tank mix (No more having to plan your crews around 12-hour REIs) 
  •  OMRI Listed products for organic production
  • No resistance build-up, so it is an excellent tank mix to be used as either a stand-alone or in your current rotation to stretch out the usage of your other inputs

CEASE + MilStop is the ideal tank mix for crops such as:Herbs

  • Poinsettias
  • Early spring propagation (The 4-hour REI is great for your labor planning in your propagation houses)
  • Vegetables and HerbsGeraniumRozanne
  • Cut flowers
  • Foliage 
  • Seasonal inside color
  • Retail/ Growing operations that have customer exposure concerns

So be prepared this winter.  For more information about these products and using them in a tank mix, click here for our CEASE-MilStop Tank Mix Technical Bulletin.

HolidayShippingSchedBioWorks 2010 Holiday Shipping Schedule

By Julie Caulfield, Business and Administrative Manager

 

During the Thanksgiving Holiday
BioWorks will be closed on Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th 2010.  We will re-open Monday, November 29th, 2010.


During the Christmas Holiday
BioWorks will be closed on Friday, December 24th, 2010. We will re-open Monday, December 27th, 2010. During the New Year's holiday BioWorks will be closed on Friday, December 31st, 2010 and will re-open on Monday January 3rd, 2011.

  
Key Dates to Remember:


11/25/10 (Thurs.) - No shipping will take place

11/26/10 (Fri.) - No shipping will take place

11/29/10 (Mon.) - Normal shipping will resume


12/24/10
(Fri.) - No shipping will take place

12/27/10 (Mon.) - Normal shipping will resume

12/30/10 (Thurs.) - No shipping will take place

12/31/10 (Fri.) - No shipping will take place

1/3/11 (Mon.) - Normal shipping will resume

 

Please note that NemaShield will not be shipped on Wednesday 11/24/10 nor on Thursday 12/23/10 or Thursday 12/30/10. 

  

If you have any questions please contact: Customer Service at 800-877-9443 or [email protected]


We wish you a very Happy Holiday Season!

 
 
In This Issue
Foliar Diseases on the Rise
BioWorks 2010 Holiday Shipping Schedule
BioWorks In The News
Quick Links
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Visit BioWorks at these Upcoming Tradeshows: 

  

Great Lakes Fruit & Veggie Expo

Dec 7-9 Grand Rapids, MI
Booth #1447

MANTS

Jan 5-7 Baltimore, MD Booth #6


Jan 19-21 Ft. Lauderdale, FL

BioWorks In The News

GMPro Oct. 2010
"All of the plugs are produced in Berger's high-porosity BM6 growing mix to which RootShield is added."

Greenhouse Grower
Aug. 2010
Juergen Steininger of Longwood Gardens uses a specific Freesia mix, and adds RootShield.

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